Flood Lead

2 weeks ago


Brisbane, Australia Australian Bureau of Meteorology Full time

APS Level 6, Ongoing or Non-ongoing
- $84,670- $96,267 + 15.4% super
- Brisbane

**Position overview**:
We are seeking an enthusiastic and qualified Electronics, Electrical or Instrumentation technician or engineer, ideally with previous field experience.

You take pride in developing and mentoring staff. Your strong teamwork abilities ensure you can empower and inspire the field teams you are responsible for managing.

**Who are you?**

You have an appetite for working in remote locations.

You are a suitably qualified team player who likes to get hands-on in the field, and the prospect of seeing many parts of Australia excites you.

You have strong communication skills to support your field team, negotiate and manage stakeholder relationships, and leverage emotional intelligence.

**Who are we?**

The Brisbane Operations Hub is the Bureau of Meteorologys premier technical operations centre.

Staff based at the Brisbane Operations Hub travel far and wide utilising 4WDs, planes, boats, and helicopters to maintain service delivery within the various instrumentation networks. This includes:

- Rain Radars
- Automatic Weather Stations (AWS)
- Upper-Air monitoring systems (sounding balloons)
- Sea Level Monitoring Stations
- Wave Buoys
- Satellite ground reception and space weather instruments
- Wave height buoys
- Flood warning / rainfall monitoring systems
- Cooperative observers, volunteer rainfall stations
- Communications, telemetry and instrumentation systems

Brisbane Operations Hubs immediate area of responsibility encompasses southern QLD.

We are part of a national maintenance workforce and there is every likelihood of travel to other parts of Australia on occasion to support the other eight Hubs around the country.

We offer specialised, in-house competency-based training on all our equipment and will ensure you have the necessary tools and skills to undertake this work.

We strive to deliver exceptional customer service, as we engage with stakeholders, contractors, support staff and the Australian public.

We promote a diverse and inclusive workplace culture that prioritises the health, safety and wellbeing of all our staff.

You will report to and be mentored by the Hub Manager.

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